Many auto workers, arrested by the US huge workplace raids, violated visitors visas, officials said.
Immigration and tariff enforcement (ICE) found that it was illegally working at the Hyundai Battery Factory in Georgia on Thursday.
Ice added, “Short -term or recreation visas do not have the authority to work in the United States.”
South Korea, which has promised to invest billions of dollars in major US industries for the next few years, has been dispatched to Georgia to avoid some tariffs and demanded to respect citizenship rights.
The arrested workers were held in the ice facility of Georgia’s Folkston until the institution decided to move next.
More than 300 of the detained people have been reported as Korean citizens. In a statement, Hyundai said in a statement that the company did not hire directly.
LG ENERGY SOLUTION, which operates factories with Hyundai, has a high priority that the BBC guarantees the safety and welfare of employees and partners.
South Korea’s foreign minister Cho Hyun -hyun said on Saturday that he felt a great responsibility for the arrest of our citizens.
In a Friday statement, the ICE office in Savanasi said that this aircraft is “part of an active and ongoing criminal investigation.”
“The individual arrested during the surgery was found to be illegally working in violation of visa and/or status,” he added.
But Atlanta’s immigrant lawyer Charles Kuck told the New York Times that two customers were wrong.
He said in the newspaper that he was in the United States according to the visa exemption program, so he can travel for up to 90 days for tourism or business.
“My customer was doing exactly what I could do according to my visa exemption,” he said on Friday.
He said that one of them arrived only on Tuesday and will leave next week.
ICE said that one of the detained people is that Mexican citizens and lab seats are long and permanent resident.
According to ice, an individual was convicted of drug possession and attempted to sell stolen firearms and theft.
The Homeland Security Survey (HSI) Special Agent STEVEN SCHRANK said: “We welcome all companies that we want to invest in the United States.
“And it’s okay if they have to bring workers for architecture or other projects, but they have to be legally.
“This operation sends a clear message that people who exploit the system and undermine the workforce will be responsible.”
The Korea Foreign Ministry responded to the attack on the statement that “the economic activity of Korean investment companies and the rights and interests of Korean citizens should not be violated in the US law.”
This raid is tension between President Donald Trump’s top priority, establishing manufacturing in the United States and cracking down on illegal immigration. You can also stress your relationship with major allies.
Trump said at an elliptical office on Friday, “They were illegal aliens and ice was doing it.”
He asked the reporter about the reaction of Seoul. “Well, we want to hang out with other countries, and we want to have a great and stable personnel.
“And as I understand, many illegal aliens, some are not the best people, but there are many illegal aliens who work there.”
Trump has tried to bring major investments from other countries, and he will also provide manufacturers with incentives for making products in the United States.
The president also had a campaign to crack down on illegal immigration, and supporters told those who believed that immigrants were stealing jobs from Americans.
The plant, which creates a new electric vehicle, has hired 1,200 people as the largest economic development project in history by the Republican governor of Georgia.
